Category Archives: Hardware

AMD may have announced that the Ryzen 5000 series would support X470 and B450 motherboards from January 2021, but ASUS has other ideas. Multiple motherboard manufacturers, including ASUS, have already released updated BIOSes for 500 series chipsets, but the company has dropped X470 motherboards from future plans. ASUS is yet to officially confirm this, but it is letting […]

Samsung has announced products that may be for professional photographers, vloggers or prosumers looking for a new and reliable full-sized SD card. The 2020 EVO Plus and PRO Plus models are all SDXC, but for the smallest 32GB SKU of each line, which are SDHC. This variant of the PRO Plus series is also the only one that misses out on […]

u/Akira13645 on Reddit has observed that Intel has updated the Core i3-x100F series for the final quarter of 2020 (4Q2020). This recently-established line exists to offer budget processing without UHD graphics. The new i3-10100F still fits this mold, although it also has marked Comet Lake-afforded advantages over its predecessor. For example, it is the first F-variant to exhibit Intel Hyper-Threading Technology – which means double the threads […]

Intel vPro-enabled processors are typically slower than their non-vPro counterparts due to the overhead necessary for the integrated security features. The vPro-enabled Core i7-10810U, for example, is about 10 to 15 percent slower than the consumer-oriented Core i7-10710U even though the higher-digit naming convention might suggest otherwise. The latest vPro CPU we tested was the 10th gen Comet […]

Intel has introduced new processors dedicated to IoT applications at its latest Industrial Summit (September 2020). The chipsets are 11th-gen and have Xe graphics with a maximum of 4 cores/8 threads each and TDPs of up to 28W. Nevertheless, they are still capable of supporting up to 4 4K/60fps HDR (or dual 8K/60fps SDR) monitors. Therefore, they may be more able to […]

Samsung now officially pitches its state-of-the-art 980 PRO solid-state drive (SSD) at “professionals and consumers who want cutting-edge performance in their high-end PCs, workstations and game consoles”. On that note, it is slated to be the storage associated with the PlayStation 5. The OEM made no mention of this in its launch announcement, however, although it did confirm its PCIe 4.0-readiness. […]

AMD’s Zen 3 and RDNA 2 are perhaps the most anticipated computing platforms for 2020. Now we have a firm date on when we will see them. AMD posted a teaser video for its next generation of GPUs. The Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs, which are built on the RDNA 2 architecture, will officially launch […]